Call for Nominations: TCI 2022 Distinguished Service Award & Rising Star Award

The IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on the Internet (TCI) is a forum for furthering research aiming at the advancement of the Internet — its underlying technologies and the applications it supports. The forum’s interests span many areas in computer science and engineering — areas that are shaping the grand symbiosis of the Internet and the Web.

TCI is currently calling for 2022 nominations for its Distinguished Service Award and Rising Star Award to recognize individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the community. Details are provided below including award introductions, areas of achievement examples, nomination packet requirements, and submission instructions.

You can learn more information about the awards and the technical community on TCI’s homesite.

Nominations for both awards must be submitted no later than 1 June 2022.

Want More Tech News? Subscribe to ComputingEdge Newsletter Today!

TCI Distinguished Service Award

The TCI Distinguished Service Award is given to an individual with distinguished service to the Internet research community (as defined by the TCI scope) and will be announced and presented to the awardee during the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), which is planned to take place in Seattle, Washington, USA in December 2022. Any individual — whether from academia, industry, or government — is eligible for the award, and will be evaluated based on his or her service contributions to the community. Self-nominations are not accepted.

Examples of achievements include but are not limited to the following:

•  Catalyzing new Internet research communities
•  Leadership in journal editorial processes
•  Leadership in organizing established conferences or starting new conferences
•  Leadership in creating new research opportunities for the community (e.g., organizing and leading a significant new research institute or center, shaping the programs of funding agencies such as NSF, etc.)
•  Leadership in societies relevant to the TCI scope
•  Leadership in Internet standardization activities (e.g., IETF, W3C)

The nomination package must include:

1. The current CV of the nominee;
2. A nominating letter (limited to 500 words) highlighting the nominee’s service to the Internet research community; and
3. A support letter from another individual (not the nominee or the nominator) of no more than 250 words.

Please submit nominations by email to tci-awards@computer.org. The deadline for nominations is 1 June 2022 (anywhere on Earth).

The nomination committee for 2022 is:

•  Azer Bestavros, Boston University
•  Brian Blake, Georgia State University
•  Fred Douglis, Chair, Perspecta Labs

The final awardee selection will be made by the evaluation committee consisting of:

•  Schahram Dustdar, Chair, Vienna University of Technology
•  George Pallis, University of Cyprus
•  Omer Rana, Cardiff University

The committees reserve the right to seek external opinions during the processing of candidates’ applications.

TCI Rising Star Award

The TCI Rising Star Award is given for high-impact technical contributions to the Internet research community (as defined by the TCI scope) to an individual in the first 10 years of his or her career. The award will be announced and presented to the awardee during the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), which is planned to take place in Seattle, Washington, USA in December 2022.

Examples of contributions and supporting evidence include but are not limited to the following:

•  High-impact technical publications in conferences and journals relevant to TCI’s scope, such as SEC, NSDI, SIGCOMM, IEEE Internet Computing, ACM Transactions on Internet Technologies, and others, particularly those recognized with best paper awards. (Include the number of citations.)
•  Software or other research assets that are widely available and widely used (include the number of downloads and citations to the asset).
•  Recognition by peers and others including (for example) awards; leadership responsibilities; service on technical program committees, editorial boards, etc.; influence on standards or other commercial activity; and competitive funding success.

Eligibility: Nominees must be active researchers in academia or industry, whose last academic degree was conferred less than 10 years ago (as of the nomination deadline).

The nomination package must include:

1. The current CV of the nominee;
2. A nominating letter (limited to 500 words) highlighting the nominee’s technical contributions; and
3. A support letter from another individual (not the nominee or the nominator) of no more than 250 words.

Nominators and supporters from institutions other than the nominees will be given greater weight in the selection process. Self-nominations are not accepted.

Nominations must be submitted by email to tci-awards@computer.org by 1 June 2022 (anywhere on Earth).

The nomination committee for 2022 is:

•  Azer Bestavros, Boston University
•  Brian Blake, Georgia State University
•  Fred Douglis, Chair, Peraton Labs

The final awardee selection will be made by the evaluation committee consisting of:

•  Schahram Dustdar, Chair, Vienna University of Technology
•  George Pallis, University of Cyprus
•  Omer Rana, Cardiff University

The committees reserve the right to seek external opinions during the processing of candidates’ applications.